Books
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NEW!!! An Introduction to SOE and the CMSM collection Britain’s wartime Special Operations Executive (SOE) was formed in 1940. For the next five years SOE inserted paramilitary trained secret agents into enemy-occupied territories to coordinate resistance. From diverse backgrounds a volunteer motley crew of spies, saboteurs, couriers and wireless operators bravely plied their trades behind
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The daring Story of The Cockleshell Heroes Raid Operation Frankton was the operational name for the daring WWII raid when ten Royal Marines navigated the Gironde Estuary in small canoes to attach explosive limpet mines to German merchant vessels docked in the French port of Bordeaux. It later became more famously known as ‘The Cockleshell
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The History of the Second Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment during WWII Mettle and Pasture – the story of the part played during the Second World War in Europe by the 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment. Entering France in September 1939 as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) they witnessed from the front line the